ODP980: ODP Site 980 Benthic Stable Isotope Data

In mcrucifix/pleistocene: Datasets of glacial cycles (ice and ocean)

Description

ODP site 980 0-1 Myr benthic stable isotope data. Latitude: 55d29.1'N Longitude: 14d42.1'W Bathymetry: 2168 m North Atlantic

CONTRIBUTORS: Benjamin P. Flower, University of South Florida, Delia W. Oppo and Jerry F. McManus, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

IGBP PAGES/WDCA CONTRIBUTION SERIES NUMBER: 2000-070

Usage

data(ODP980)

Format

A data frame on the following variables.

Variables:
Depth.mcd.	meters composite depth
Age.ka.	age in thousands of years
Cw.d13C	Cibicidoides wuellerstorfi delta 13C vs VPDB
Cw.d18O	Cibicidoides wuellerstorfi delta 18O vs VPDB

Details

See the file ‘PKG/orig/ODP/ODP980/README.txt’ for details.

Note

Highly resolved, high quality over the last 1Myr

Source

Original version at ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/contributions_by_author/flower2000

References

Flower, B.P., Oppo, D.W., McManus, J.F., Venz, K.A., Hodell, D.A., and Cullen, J., 2000, North Atlantic Intermediate to Deep Water Circulation and Chemical Stratification During the Past 1 Myr, Paleoceanography, v.15, No. 4, pp. 388-403, August 2000.

Oppo, D.W., J.F. McManus, and J.L. Cullen, 1998, Abrupt climate events 500,000-340,000 years ago: Evidence from subpolar North Atlantic sediments, Science, 279, 1335-1338, 1998.

McManus, J.F., D.W. Oppo, and J. Cullen, 1999, A 0.5 million year record of millennial-scale climate variability in the North Atlantic, Science, 283, 971-975, 1999.

SUGGESTED DATA CITATION: Flower, B.P., et al., 2000, ODP Site 980 Benthic Stable Isotope Data, IGBP PAGES/World Data Center A for Paleoclimatology Data Contribution Series #2000-070. NOAA/NGDC Paleoclimatology Program, Boulder CO, USA.

Examples

data(ODP980)
with(ODP980,plot(Age.ka.,Cw.d18O,type='b'))

mcrucifix/pleistocene documentation built on May 22, 2019, 3:20 p.m.